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phpBB Discussion • Blocking bots that flood my phpBB with requests
I have a phpBB forum that has been running fine for 15 years but starting a few days ago, the forum suddenly receives myriads of requests from bots which slow down the whole forum and make it hardly...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Blocking bots that flood my phpBB with requests
I would say the fastest and easiest method is to setup Cloudflare. It's used here at phpBB.com and was quite effective the other day when a botnet started hammering the forums. They have a free tier...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: [Discuss] phpBB 3.3.15-RC1 available for testing
Updated using advanced update: https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... _advanced/ from phpBB 3.3.14PHP 8.3.16Everything went as plannedStatistics: Posted by ssl — Sun Mar 02, 2025 6:16 pm
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: phpbbstudio offline forever?
You could try asking the host (kualo)Statistics: Posted by Mick — Tue Mar 04, 2025 8:16 am
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Upload from iphone
If you are referring to the sideways thumbs/images this has not been fixed AFAIK. I've used the fix suggested here successfully. https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/pull/6131kinda confused on how to add...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Is my forum under attack?
Over the past few days I noticed that my server web traffic was going up to about 10 GB/day, and it turned out that almost all of it was in the form of about 1 million requests per day of the...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Is my forum under attack?
Is there a security team or contact information at phpBB that I can reach out to, regarding this issue? Perhaps, it could help identify any potential risks regarding this type of attack, if not...
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phpBB Discussion • Re: A phpBB mobile app
I think the cons are too much, I have spent an enormous amount of time to make my forum look and work the way it is, and it sounds like a mobile app would reduce its value in that sense. I AM - as you...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: [Discuss] phpBB 3.3.15-RC1 available for testing
Updated a test board from:3.3.14PHP: 8.3.16 database: MySQL(i) 10.6.21-MariaDB-cll-lve-logwithout any problemsStatistics: Posted by bennybernaer — Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:12 pm
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phpBB Discussion • Content is king, but....
Content is king, but....We need people to help creating the content.You have the board, you have content and you have lots of guests visiting.Well, its nice to have guests enjoying your content. But...
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phpBB Discussion • Re: Content is king, but....
I have a forum with Dutch translations for extensions.The board is 1.5 year old now with just a very few members (14).None of them are active or post messages.Believe me , I tried everything to become...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • What happened to my topic?
I posted a topic yesterday asking for help as I was having problems with my extensions, the topic got replies, but now the topic has vanished with no explanation and I can't find it.The only way I can...
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phpBB Discussion • Re: What happened to my topic?
See my PM. In the future, please reach out to myself or another Community Team member if you have questions about moderation of a topic or post. Statistics: Posted by Kailey — Sun Mar 09, 2025 3:24 pm
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Is my forum's DDoS issue due to configuration or hosting?
You can try the Rate limiting section in CF. Haven't used it but you are going to want to specify requests for index.php, viewtopic.php and viewforum.php. e.g. don't add file.php because that can...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Why are empty index.htm files in folders?
Hello,why are in some folders of phpbb empty index.htm files? Can I remove them without any issues? I have installed Error page mode, so if these empty index.htm files only for protect before indexing...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Why are empty index.htm files in folders?
It's a minor security enhancement. For example if you tried example.com/files/ the .htaccess file will prevent access to that folder and they should get 403 forbidden, it's unlikely but that can fail....
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Blocking bots that flood my phpBB with requests
I've now set up Cloudflare for my forum but I'm afraid it didn't solve the problem. The site is still being hammered by bots from South America and AFAICS I can't geoblock South America on Cloudflare...
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phpBB Discussion • Forum markup
Google Search Console just showed me this message:The link leads to: https://developers.google.com/search/do ... sion-forumI know this is likely a Google-specific markup, but if it's feasible, it...
View ArticlephpBB Discussion • Re: Forum markup
There is topic in Ideas forum where this was already brought up with a response from Marc the lead developer about implementing it. No idea about the when.Statistics: Posted by thecoalman — Wed Mar...
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phpBB Discussion • Stupidly deleted a long thread - can I redirect/point to...
Apologies for the dumbo query - own a largish free board, but sadly I am not tech minded at all - a PhpBB whizz in the USA generally was able to quickly sort things for us over many years, but he has...
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